PLAIN PEOPLE: Hopes

Outside Rome's most elegant hotel last
week a tattered legion of would-be emigrants kept watch by one of
Europe's few exits. When Juan Peron's Government announced that
Argentina wanted manual workers (TIME Jan. 27), hundreds of Italians
streamed through the plushy corridors of the Grand Hotel, where the
immigration commission was set up. After a few days of this, the
management brushed them out through the revolving door towards the
rainy Piazza, dell' Esedra. Here, under the pampered ilex trees, they
waited their turn, munched bread and cheese, lounged against the new...